After this short lapse into geek I logged into my bytemark machine and
battened down the hatches. I shut down all unneeded daemons and prepared
for the server to go down. The only thing that upset my plans was the
absence of the Slashdot Effect.

In total I got the best part of 500 new readers when the article hit and
then these dropped down by three hundred or so over the next few days. As
my record for unixdaemon.net is over 1700 people in a day this isn’t
exactly a worrying amount. With hind-site (and after restarting a couple of
daemons) it is pretty logical, the whole review was on slashdot, there
wasn’t much of a reason to follow the links back here. Everyone was
interested in the review rather than me so the traffic wasn’t going to
spike as badly as I thought.

The article itself received a lot of interesting comments (which I’m
thankful for) and only a couple of little niggles. One reader picked up a
mistake in grammar which I’m annoyed I missed. A second one was curious as
to how I had a review copy and was paranoid about any back handers I may
have received to write the review. If only I was that predictable! All in
all it was a pleasant experience that made the extra time spent on the
review worth while. And to everyone who commented on the review; thank you.